Samba again – Samba causing account lockouts with Windows 7 …
DaleUsers were reporting that their Windows domain accounts were being locked out. After much investigation, the following was discovered. When you map a drive with Windows 7, it will try…
The Nikki Car
Has been donated to Kids Under Cover, which was a fitting thing to happen to it. It was the second Nikki car. The first one was stolen. I called it…
Saturday link roundup.
Open House Melbourne is on the 26/27th July.Open House Melbourne is a not-for-profit association that runs annual events providing the public a free and rare opportunity to discover a hidden…
That Futon Bed I Have
Was purchased from Back To Bed. I’ve been very happy, good quality and great price. When I moved, I lost the bolts which connects the headboard to the base. So…
On having a Mind Like Water and STOPing
As part of the Getting Things Done methodology, David Allen talks about the martial arts concept of having a Mind Like Water. I was talking to a friend the other…
Old versions of Samba, and Windows Vista / 7 / 8
The customer reported a problem with our Windows 7 desktop. Unable to delete the top level folder with Windows 7, but it works with Windows XP. It must be something…
Comedians I missed this year at the 2014 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
These comedians are on my list for next year: Cam Knight Celia Pacquola Jennifer Wong Sonia Di Ioria Rose Callaghan Lana Schwarcz Hayley Brennan Beau Stegmann Alexis Simmonds (unless I…
That picture looks odd …
I was looking at the picture on the right, and was thinking, there’s something wrong with it. But I didn’t know what. So I did a check on TinEye*, and…
Getting a list of users in an AD Group. using Vbscript.
I much prefer using Quest to do this (see this post), but I needed to use Vbscript as I had to output the results into an Excel spreadsheet. If you…
Configuring DNS Suffix Search List via Group Policy
It seemed like a good idea at the time, configure the DNS Suffix Search List centrally so everyone gets the same thing. The wheels fell off when I went to…